Cass McCombs - A Folk Set Apart - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A significant strand of American music, especially in the folk and blues arenas, relates to what came to be known as protest songs when opinions on a number of key social and political issues during the post-war era - civil rights, nuclear disarmament, industrial justice and more - found a unified voice in the musical protest movement. However, this was nothing new, and many of the songs associated with this era came from earlier decades, as blues singers chronicled experiences of racial prejudice, poor rural folk sang about the privations of the Depression, industrial workers railed against exploitation, and gospel singers sought solace in spirituals. This 50-track 2-CD set brings together a selection of recordings which, one way or another, relate to the idea of songs as a medium of protest and social and political commentary, with the later incarnations representing the early stirrings of the classic folk protest movement which crystallised in the early '60s in the hands of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and others - one or two of their early recordings are included here. Many of the noted voices of protest are featured here - Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Paul Robeson, Josh White - along with folk artists who embraced the cause like Odetta, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte and many more, plus some of the more obscure but no less important recordings that set the tone and led the way for later artists. It's a fascinating and we hope inspiring collection, which tells many a story.

Mötley Crüe - InchFrom The BeginningInch From The Beginning spans four decades of Crüe anthems, kicking off with their first global single and MTV video InchLive WireInch and winding through the years to 2024's Top 5 rock smash InchDogs Of War.Inch In between are the hits and fan favorites that shaped the rock genre and a generation, including InchKickstart My Heart,Inch InchDr. Feelgood,Inch InchGirls, Girls, Girls,Inch InchShout at the Devil,Inch InchSmokin' In The Boys Room,Inch InchWild Side,Inch and many more. Includes a stunning new version of the band's revered classic, InchHome Sweet Home,Inch reimagined as a heartfelt duet with none other than globally beloved superstar Dolly Parton. CD Digipak features 19 tracks.

2022 . On Heartmind, Cass McCombs enters the double-digit-album phase of his career, a quantitatively rarified place for any songwriter; rarer still, though, is the fact that he does not yet seem to have settled into a qualitative sound or pattern, of singing the same thought twice (or perhaps even once). Songs like InchKaraokeInch are a god-level burst of power-pop perfection, as fetching as anything Cass has ever cut. The springy staccato guitar, the vaporized electric keys, the melody seemingly born for singing or clapping or dancing along Cass triangulates a perch of his very own out among The Go-Betweens, The dB's, and The Cure, and vibrates there, a beacon. And then, of course, there is the song's playful if painful lyrical conceit-the lover who is making all the sacred motions of commitment but whose feelings may be no more deep or real than someone simply reading the lyrics for InchVision of LoveInch or InchStand by Your ManInch from some crowded bar's TV screen.